Laws of Life
Laws of Life
(The Way of Man. 9.33.) The Concept of Law
(9.33.1) By objective laws we understand the existence of constant energy currents in constant material relations. This stability makes it possible for the worlds and the processes of manifestation to endure. What “law actually is” is a problem that occupies even the planetary hierarchy. Probably only the highest kind of cosmic consciousness can perceive it.
Meditation. Guidance.
On guidance and meditation. Sundry notes. The Way of Man.
(8.20.7) Quite intentionally Laurency gives no information about methods of meditation. There are too many already; most of them unsuitable without a knowledge of the individual’s stage of development, exact horoscope, the departments of his causal and triad envelopes, whatever he possesses latently. In any case, everybody has to develop his own method and apply it until he receives personal instructions as a disciple of the planetary hierarchy. Anyone who seeks to contact his Augoeides and observes what is necessary to rouse his active intervention also learns how that tie is to be strengthened.
More on Control of Consciousness
The Way of Man.(6.24) Control of Consciousness.
(6.24.1) There are many ways of facilitating the control of consciousness, preventing thoughts from wandering, replacing unwelcome thought associations. You may have some construction at hand which you are working at, or an unsolved problem, or some sort of task, or direct your attention to your Augoeides or, if you are too tired to keep your attention fixed, you can use a mantra.
(6.24.2) “Meditation” consists in “thinking the matter over”, analysing it methodically and systematically until all its elements have been clarified so that you know what it all is about, which otherwise seldom is the case. What the outcome is, is “another story”, and depends on individual understanding, knowledge, and power of judgement.
Control of Consciousness
(The Way of Man, 3.16) Control of Consciousness
(3.16.1) Attention indicates the concentration of consciousness. Attention can be called the visual point of the self. The consciousness content of our envelopes of incarnation is determined by how we use our attention. Control of consciousness is control of attention and the most important factor of evolution.
(3.16.2) The self’s consciousness, the monad consciousness (attention) must be occupied. If it is not occupied with something essential, something that promotes consciousness development, then it must be something different, less useful, often useless, quite often harmful. Hobbies, amusements, etc., thus are only substitutes. The individual’s level of development appears in his choice of objects of his attention. There are physical, emotional, and mental interests. Anyone who has acquired control of thought decides himself what he will think of. Others are dominated by their illusions and fictions.
Mankind
(The Way of Man, 3.19) Our Unique Mankind
(3.19.1) Mankind has not reached farther than that hatred rules between individuals, families, classes, nations, races, religions, the two sexes, etc. And then man is defined as a being equipped with reason. It is a very narrowly developed reason, exclusively concentrated on physical material reality. The consciousness aspect of existence is scarcely discovered yet. So-called psychology is a miserable business.
(3.19.2) Mankind could have been given all knowledge of life by its planetary hierarchy. In their striving after power men knew how to arrange their lives and banished their teachers of wisdom. During twelve thousand years we have reaped our own sowing.
The Envelopes of the First Self (The Way of Man).
The Envelopes as Beings of Their Own. The Worlds of the First Self.
(3.2) Generals
(3.2.1) The four envelopes of incarnation – the organism, the etheric envelope, the emotional envelope, the mental envelope – which the monad is able to work with, are four mechanisms. In so far as the monad has been able to activate the molecules and molecular consciousness of these envelopes, the four envelopes function as one mechanism for the monad in the triad.
(3.2.2) The monad in the incarnated triad envelope makes use of its envelopes of incarnation as instruments of observation, apprehension, and expression.
(3.2.3) Man’s aura consists of four material envelopes: the etheric, emotional, mental, and the causal triad envelope. The aura makes up man’s total life from his birth to the end of his incarnation. The aura makes up the monad’s possibility of consciousness and the domain of the monad’s apprehension; it is the receiver of all impressions, subjective or objective, from the four worlds. The aura radiates energy and has in some people a magnetic effect. The colours of the aura indicate the individual’s level of development, especially the colours of the mental and emotional envelopes.
ON MANKIND AT THE STAGE OF IGNORANCE
(The Way of Man, 1.52) Our Epoch
(1.52.1) Esoterics divides the history of the planet into zodiacal epochs of some 2500 years each. Every new zodiacal epoch brings with it other kinds of energies than the previous ones, energies from another constellation. The last 2500 years have constituted the Piscean zodiacal epoch and have simultaneously been the epoch of the sixth department. This information is valuable for those who are interested in esoteric astrology and departments. It explains much of the history of that epoch, an age of horror, the rule of barbarism with clans at the stage of barbarism in incarnation.